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  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

team-based, seniority-based, and flatter compensation. We propose that compensation is strategic not only in motivating and attracting the worker being compensated, but also in its impact on peer workers and the firm's complementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor São Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by providing both enough time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

argued that without this profit, businesses targeting the poor will not attract the level of investment necessary to be sustainable or scaleable across the entire BOP. According to this view, above-average profitability should be seen as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

allocations through funds. One year later, PFA could count on an expert alternative investment team, a defined investment process, and a number of successful direct investments. Still, a number of questions remained: How could PFA better access View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

resources.” Shortly after assuming his position, Jimenez initiated a strategic review that sought to concentrate the portfolio on businesses where Novartis could be at global scale in attractive markets. Rather than following competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

minds—the deep metaphors that reveal people's true feelings about products. The solution: Find ways to generate positive emotional associations, as GSK has done with its weight-loss product. Alex Lee, president of household-products maker OXO International, says... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

with women who were partners for at least five years (listed as such in both 1995 and 2000). We believed that having a woman on the decision-making team would, 1) attract more deals from women entrepreneurs, and 2) might actually have... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

Cups, and the league’s capabilities as a diversified media company represented attractive elements for its prospective expanded U.S. broadcast presence. The case includes descriptions of the Bundesliga, its national and international... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

remain attractive to doctors, insurance providers, and individual patients? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 906-408 Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

tested whether the subsidies were associated with differential attendance and weight loss over 12 months, as might be predicted by the expectation that they attract employees with differing degrees of motivation. Analysis and Results:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

later) or abandoning them. In contrast, experienced sellers can attract buyers at any stage and they sell worse ideas sooner and better ideas later. These results have important managerial implications for buyers and sellers and show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

if companies want to retain and engage them? Many have yet to figure out how to effectively harness the diverse talents within their own countries. And of course in the emerging economies the demographics are such that it is the young we must View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

to report using Chinese GAAP without reconciliation to IFRS. The exchange was responding to the demands of its largely Chinese clientele and also coping with increased global competition to attract listings from Chinese companies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

principal can set its payment delay to deter bad-type agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding bad agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

incentives to engage with shareholders. Misaki Capital was founded in 2013 with a strategy of constructively engaging with portfolio firms, providing operational and financial advice to management in order to improve shareholder value. This case asks students to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have also generally succeeded in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

in China. So far he had been able to attract a large number of Chinese-born but U.S.-trained scientists to play a critical role in establishing the site. How sustainable was this strategy, and what were the key things he had to do right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

rival entrant. The radical innovation may yield lucrative financial returns but entails significant technological and market-related uncertainties. It is also particularly attractive to the rival entrant: if the market for it pans out,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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